From Baird Maritime:
A cultural, economic and environmental tale of two fishing towns. Newlyn in Cornwall in England and Gloucester in Massachusetts in the United States.
The steady and apparently terminal decline of the fishing industry in both ports is symptomatic of what is happening along all the coasts of the developed world. As the author describes it in his two examples, it is matched nearly equally by the development of tourism.
Of course, as all in the fishing industry know full well, the choking off of the fishing industry is often justified by very spurious "science". The author well describes the familiar battle between industry and the bureaucracy and scientists.
While the bureaucrats and scientists seem presently in the ascendant in both towns the author seems to believe there is still some hope. As he says: "… for … all the coastlines of the world to house nothing but tourism and yachting … would be … unthinkable."
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